What is PABRA Academy?
The PABRA Academy is a capacity-building initiative of PABRA aimed at addressing identified capacitybuilding gaps of partners along the value chain. Using the Capacity Building Framework (CBF) of PABRA, which is aligned with the bean corridor approach, the Academy will identify and address the knowledge and skills gaps initially with national bean researchers and expand to other actors and institutions at the three corridor hubs of production, aggregation, and consumption, while corresponding with essential activities and processes along the bean value chain.
Meet our first cohort
Map of the institutions
Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance (PABRA) of Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT (https://www.pabra-africa.org/) – leveraging the funding of the various PABRA prestigious prizes (Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance Wins Africa Food Prize 2023 | PABRA – https://allbiociat.org/4jkJg2z; Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance receives award for its contribution towards Food Security through bean research | PABRA – https://allbiociat.org/4lmsull).
What makes the Academy unique?
Information about project
Designed to benefit all stakeholders across the bean value chain in PABRA’s 31 member countries, the Academy will use PABRA’s Capacity Building Framework aligned with the bean corridor approach—to equip crop improvement researchers and other actors with the knowledge, skills, and tools needed to develop, deliver, and promote bean varieties and technologies that meet market demands.
In its first round of support, the PABRA Academy is focusing on training researchers in the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) at post-graduate levels of Master’s and PhD candidates. So far, five initial beneficiaries have been selected, comprising two women and three men, selected from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
In its first round of support, the PABRA Academy is focusing on training researchers in the National Agricultural Research Systems (NARS) at post-graduate levels of Master’s and PhD candidates. So far, five initial beneficiaries have been selected, comprising two women and three men, selected from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia and Zimbabwe.